Collin

One of my favorites.

My older brother Collin gladly brought his guitar outside for an end-of-fall photo shoot.

Macro

I decided to go out and try my new camera, with my new macro lens.

Let's juts say I'm in love.

Canon 60D

After saving Christmas money, Birthday money, and babysitting money. I finally had enough money to buy my first "real" camera!

Hello Canon 60D!!

New and Old

New Spring flowers

And a dying leaf.

Un-Touched

Photography is like painting on canvas with sunlight. Editing throws shadows onto the piece.

Kingsbury

"God, please now my future see, make it clear where I should be. Open windows, close the doors, not my will, my God, but Yours."
- Karen Kingsbury

Great Classics

(Along with photography, this blog will also substitute for a place for me to write or present things I have written for school. )

Numerous schools in today’s world have slowly started dropping the great classic books and replaced them with “new informational” books. To begin, the definition of a great classic book is, “A classic book is a book accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy, either through an imprimatur such as being listed in any of the Western canons or through a reader's own personal opinion.” These great classics are the best of their kind. Nothing will beat a good read-through of Jane Austen’s, Pride and Prejudice, or Mr. Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, or perhaps Charles Dickens’s, A Tale of Two Cities.  “And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better,’” (Luke 4:15). The old and aged things are much sweeter and wiser than the new and ‘improved’ versions. As wine ages it becomes more tasteful and more admired, just as great classic books do. Classic books are like family heirlooms, important and special enough to be passed down through many generations. For many decades already the great classic books have been taught in schools all over the country, and even around the world. They have been passed down from reader to reader, inspiring anyone who reads it that though the world may be different now, these wonderful works will be preserved and gifted to students to learn and take away lessons from. The less classic books are used and the more new books abound, the more our younger generations will forget important things from the past. They will no longer see what literature used to be. They will only see the world as it is today, full of un-exemplary works of writing and forgetting the classic great books that once made education worthwhile.

A Summary

These are a collection of pictures I have taken over the years. Some are from my trip to China, and the rest are from around where I live.